Bristol Transformed

That's a wrap! Thank you to everyone who took part in Bristol Transformed 2026. We hope you enjoyed hearing from our contributors and taking part in discussions, learned new skills to use in political organising, and met campaigns and organisations to get involved with. And if the weekend left you excited for more, help make the next one happen! Every part of BT is organised and run by volunteers. It's a great way to meet new people and get involved in building something bigger. Sign up using the link in our bio, and we'll be in touch.

New this summer! We're launching the BT Cadre Summer School 🌞 A lot of people are committed and active socialists, but don't feel so confident backing up their beliefs. If that's you, join us for this fortnightly series where we'll cover all the fundamentals of socialist politics! Sign up at tinyurl.com/BTCadreSchool

In the last year, we've seen charity workers unionising against terrible conditions and insecure employment. But the problems with charity can run deeper than just being a bad place to work. This Tuesday we ask: Why does modern capitalism love charities? What are the harms of relying on charity? And do charities really change anything? Tickets on Headfirst!

🍉 Were you inspired by Bristol Apartheid-Free Zone at our festival? Want to help build the Palestine solidarity movement? Next week BAFZ are running training on how to start persuasive conversations about Palestine. They'll teach us the principles behind how BAFZ has grown - then go out together to knock on a few doors and put those lessons into practice. 🗓️ Wednesday 29th - Book a place on Headfirst

We’re at Bristol Radical History Festival today to spread the good BT word. M Shed today on the second floor. Come say hi!

🎤 We're teaming up with @thebristolcable for their live podcast, People Just Do Something! This month they're talking to Life of the Party, taking listeners inside the debates, personalities, and politics shaping the UK left. They'll debate the future of left politics, from the prospects for a new left party to the role of the Greens. 🗓️ Tuesday 28th in PRSC 🎟️ Tickets on Headfirst

✊️ How to Beat Your Boss: a whistle-stop tour of trade union tactics Whether you're an experienced union organiser or trying to unionise for the first time, there's always new tools to learn. Join us next Tuesday for a workshop on different types of collective action, and what situations they're suitable for. 🎟️ Tickets on Headfirst: /e144801

Long listen: full 8 minutes of @jidanafri speaking on behalf of the Brize Norton 5 at @briztransformed on Anti Imperialist Organising: Palestinian Liberation and Beyond.

Saturday at @briztransformed . See you today for our panel anti-imperialist organising panel with @energyembargoforpalestine , @pymbritain and other friends!

🔔 SESSION ANNOUNCEMENT 🔔 Join us tomorrow, outside in the Den at 3:30pm, for this important discussion on education and its role in changing the world Social movements from across the world, and over time, have prioritised education for the role it plays in consciousness raising and movement building. In this session, we look at two key educators/theorists behind the idea of ‘education for freedom’, bell hooks and Paolo Freire. We will take some of their ideas as a jumping off point before going on to discuss our experiences and thoughts as a group: What does education for freedom mean to us? Where do we find it in our lives now? How do we learn from it and share these ideas with others?​ Nb. This session is part of a PhD research project and, with the participants’ consent, anonymised contributions will be included in the PhD thesis

👏 REPOST: FULL PROGRAMME RELEASE 👏 We'd a few last minutes changes to our program, so please refer to this version or the website for latest schedule! We'll have sessions covering a whole range of socialist topics, always with an aim of how can we organise to win. Covering party politics with the Greens and Your Party, fighting far right extremism locally & globally and looking at the state of Trade Union organising 100 years on from the General Strike. And be sure to make our closing session, where we will confront the biggest issue of our time, rising imperialism. We'll discuss how we can and must organise against it as socialists and how YOU can do it - for a liberated Palestine, Iran and and for the whole international working class ✊️ 🇵🇸 ⚒️ We'll be joined by a whole range of organisers - rank-and-file trade unionists, authors, academics, and leading activists in their fields - as well as organisations from up and down the country including: Palestine Youth Movement (@pymbritain ), Greens Organise (@greensorganise ), The Bristol Cable (@thebristolcable ), Bristol Apartheid-Free Zone (@bristolafz ), Workers For a Free Palestine (@workers4pal ), Iskra Books (@read_iskrabooks ), local union branches, and many more! All of this comes with not only FREE CHILDCARE ALL DAY for the mini-Marxists out there (all ages welcome!), but for the first time this year a full youth programme aimed at 11-16 year olds interested in left wing and socialist politics. 16s and under all get in free for the festival (but still need to "buy" a ticket on headfirst!) As well as hours of amazing educational content, we've got great evening entertainment lined up. We'll be kicking off on the Friday night with socialist Shark Tank (i.e. Marx Tank) and on Saturday we have a whole evening of entertainment lined up - a pub quiz, sea shanties workshop, bands, and DJ's late into the night. Full details of the programming and sessions can be found on our website. Festival Tickets & Afterparty Tickets are on headfirst (links in bio). Bristol Transformed is volunteer run - all money goes back into socialist organising in our city and beyond.

Final group of speakers for Bristol Transformed this weekend! Tickets available on Headfirst >>> /e145672